UNC paths and the Windows Redirector Service

[Guest joshsackett]

Hello all,

I am performing a test using a UNC path to access a local drive. An

old Microsoft KB article (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328252)

entitled "Performance Degradation When You Use UNC Path Instead of

Drive Letter for a Local Computer" tells me that my problem (as noted

in the title) was fixed with a Service Pack update to Windows 2000.

 

My assumption would be that this problem is not supposed to occur in

Windows 2003. Either that the Redirector service is no longer used

when accessing a UNC directed to a local drive or possibly that the

performance issue was cleared up.

 

However, I experience a massive performance degradation using this

setup. I can verify the Redirector service is still being used by

checking its stats in Performance Monitor.

 

To explain: I have a folder named D:\Items and I told my application

(32bit on Windows 2003 ES x64) to access the folder via \

\HPSERVER1\Items.

 

Anyone have any tips or places where I can seek more information?

 

Thanks.